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St. Paul / Money will prop up 4 areas
Invest St. Paul takes broad approach to improving neighborhoods
BY JASON HOPPIN
Pioneer Press
With $25 million in seed money, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman announced an initiative Tuesday to revamp four flagging neighborhoods.
The effort aims to funnel public and private resources into Dayton's Bluff, the Lower East Side, Frogtown and the North End.
Coleman said the intent is to reverse spiraling vacancies, a rush of petty crimes and the drain of investment dollars from neighborhoods that now appear on the brink.
"Neighborhoods are critical. It's what I campaigned on," Coleman said. "It is, at the end of the day, what St. Paul is all about."
Stacey Millett, formerly of the Northwest Area Foundation and the Selby Area Community Development Corporation, will head the effort, dubbed Invest St. Paul.
The city will team with the Twin Cities chapter of the Local Initiatives Support Corp., a New York-based neighborhood development group funded partly by major area charitable foundations.
Coleman said the program is an attempt to take a much broader approach to revitalization than previously conceived. Plodding from one "bricks-and-mortar" project to the next, he said, isn't getting the job done.
"So much energy and effort is concentrated on one project, and the complexity of the problem is ignored. You spend years trying to fix up one building and meanwhile, the neighborhood around that building is deteriorating," Coleman said.
Though details are few, Invest St. Paul appears to be a potentially major effort that includes construction, job training and other social programs, and perhaps the demolition of blighted homes throughout the neighborhoods.
In cities such as Chicago and Indianapolis, Local Initiatives is attempting a similar effort already. And Andriana Abariottes, a program officer with the Twin Cities chapter of the organization, sounded eager to try a similar approach here.
"As much work as has gone on, the sum of the parts hasn't necessarily added up to a greater whole," Abariottes said. "There's still more work to be done."
The city's core investment will likely be $25 million in bonds, which will be repaid through revenue from an existing half-cent citywide sales tax. About $1.7 million that previously went to the city's neighborhood Sales Tax Revitalization program will be used to pay off the bonds. The city hopes to use that money to leverage millions — if not hundreds of millions — more in grants and loans.
Along Payne Avenue on Tuesday, people said crime, which has contributed to Payne Avenue's image problem, remains a primary concern. Sam Petrie works at Loeffler's Safety Shoes and grew up in a house on Earl Street, not far away. He said some customers don't have a positive impression of the area.
"They hear Payne Avenue and they think, 'Bad,' " Petrie said.
Petrie counts an abundance of Section 8 housing, prostitution and drugs among the problems. "You see the same people on the same street corner every day. You know they don't have jobs. Maybe they're self-employed," he laughed.
Though people say crime is a problem, Dee Gray isn't sure that adding police is the answer.
"They could put a million police out here and I don't think it's going to do anything. But if they had something for the kids to do," he said, suggesting after-school programs or even recreational basketball.
Though low-level crime remains a scourge in some neighborhoods, Coleman said he doesn't see any new get-tough measures similar to what Rudy Giuliani initiated as mayor of New York. His oft-stated goal of adding 100 police officers during his first four years in office would allow the city to do the kind of community policing needed to address those problems, Coleman said.
Millett said one key to neighborhood revitalization is building pride among residents.
"You have to address these quality-of-life issues by building the ability in people to have some hope, and the sense that they can do something about their neighborhoods. And that they're in the position to drive what happens," Millett said.
Millett headed the Selby Area Community Development Corp. for four years. She will work out of City Hall, and even those who haven't always sided with the mayor praised her hiring.
"Fabulous, wonderful, bright, articulate, creative person," said Council Member Debbie Montgomery, whose 1st Ward includes Frogtown and much of Selby Avenue. "She knows how to work with the community. She knows how to work with the nonprofits. She's a class act."
Under the program, projects such as the $2 million restoration of the Swedish-American Bank on Payne Avenue or the $11 million mixed-use Winnipeg project on Rice Street could become anchors in a broader, but still undefined, effort. And Coleman signaled that when given a choice between investing in downtown versus the neighborhoods, he might now side with the neighborhoods.
"The balance has been tipped too far in one direction recently, and it's time to turn it back in the other direction," he said.
The four neighborhoods were chosen after examining foreclosures, availability of transportation, income and other information. And while those four will get most of Invest St. Paul's attention, Coleman said other neighborhoods would reap benefits as well.
Jason Hoppin can be reached at jhoppin@pioneerpress.com or 651-292-1892.
Yeah right! I wouldn't invest a dime in St Paul. What for? To have your investment torn down so some sleezball politician can pusure a poitical agenda? I'll be keeping my money away from St Paul thank you very much!!!!!11
When we have new leadership in Saint Paul that promotes a favorable business climate toward the small business man I might think about it.
I wouldn't invest a dime in this Hitler like Regime.
Mayor Coleman said- "Neighborhoods are critical. It's what I campaigned on," Coleman said. "It is, at the end of the day, what St. Paul is all about."
Bob said- The truth Mayor, you are about "Deconcentrating Poverty" and it is your intent to rid the City of as much affordable housing in the private sector as you can. You do not care how many civil rights you violate to achieve this goal.
You are aware of the grievances directed at the leadership of this City and you do nothing to seek change. You sir and your companions in dirty deeds are the focus of the affordable housing crisis.
Shame on all of you.
Folks I will tell you something else very disturbing. When the police in Saint Paul find a homeless camp or shelter in an isolated area, they send the homeless on their way without their shelter (tent). Sick!
Just 2 weeks ago I sent the Mayors office an email because I am concerned about 3 teens I bumped into who are homeless. 2 of them are working. I wanted to know what resources were available. NO RESPONSE from the Mayors office.
You know why? They don't give a damn. they want as many low income and minority people as possible to leave the City.
A rush of petty crimes? I thought the city had that under control with their persecution of the property owners.
What changed?
Maybe their past policies didn't work?
LOL
Bob
"NO RESPONSE from the Mayors office."
Really know why? You're viewed as a crank that nobody can take seriously. Why respond if whatever they say is automatically turned into propaganda for one of your rants.
Bob, I'd take that as a compliment. This person just said that because of you, who you are and who you represent and speak for, St. Paul's Mayor won't respond. You are "cranking" on the power. Does the whole city really read everything on here? I don't read the Enquirer because it's really lame and superficial. Why would someone come here day after day, read everything and object, rant and carry on about every response?
9:50, I know you desperately wish people would believe you.
I am a messenger of change, and you and your friends see it comin don't ya? And, you know others see it comin too huh?
Your sweating bullets waiting for the next pile of dirt I start shoveling.
I told ya I was once a Farmer didn't I! OH YEAH, I PITCH SHIT TOO! And you thought the dirt was bad.
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